Get authenticationMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the properties and relationships of an authenticationMethod object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

The following tables show the least privileged permission or permissions required to call this API on each supported resource type. Follow best practices to request least privileged permissions. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permissions acting on self

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) UserAuthenticationMethod.Read UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

Permissions acting on other users

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All UserAuthenticationMethod.Read, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Global Reader
  • Authentication Administrator
  • Privileged Authentication Administrator

Note

The authentication administrator only sees masked phone numbers.

HTTP request

Get your own authentication methods.

GET /me/authentication/methods/{id}

Get your own or another user's authentication methods.

GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/methods/{id}

Optional query parameters

This method does not support optional query parameters to customize the response.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and the requested authenticationMethod object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/authentication/methods/{id}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod",
    "id": "b5e01f81-1f81-b5e0-811f-e0b5811fe0b5",
    "displayName": "Jordan's Surface Book",
    "createdDateTime": "2020-11-27T23:12:49Z",
    "keyStrength": "normal"
}